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Welcome to Pro-Exchange!
The primary goal of the Pro-Exchange user group is to be a central meeting point for all Unified Communications knowledge in Belgium. As user group, we are focused on IT professionals who are passionate about Microsoft Exchange Server and the other members of the Unified Communications portfolio, like Microsoft Office Communications Server. Pro-Exchange members share a document library filled with useful articles about anything concerning Unified Communications. Two very important aspects of Pro-Exchange are the forum where every member is able to ask questions and share ideas concerning Exchange & OCS, and the frequent events where Pro-Exchange members meet each other and exchange ideas. WE HAVE A BRAND NEW SITE NOW, PLEASE CHECK WWW.PROEXCHANGE.BE AND JOIN US THERE!!!! |
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 | You want to do some custom DEV or OCS or Exchange? |
 GotUC.com has launched a Development Sandbox for you to use for FREE!
This is what they have to say:
Today GotUC.net is proud to offer an opportunity for developers to start developing UC enabled applications, without having to overcome the hurdles of setting up Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 R2 and Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 Beta. If you join the GotUC.net Community and you promise to behave well, and know we have the right to revoke your account at any time, GotUC.net will offer you two user accounts in the GotUC.net domain: one personal account, and one account you can use to enable bot scenarios. The domain accounts are enabled for most UC capabilities Presence, IM, email and Exchange Web Services, and even some limited calling capabilities to the PSTN or to other Community users via Communicator. What do you need to do? Simply, just - - Join the GotUC Community
- Once you have joined our community you will see a new “Developer Sandbox” menu tab
- Click the tab and you will be taken to the registration site. Once there just click the Register button then fill in the form.
I can hear you asking “Sounds great Marshall but what are the limitations?” Well, I ‘m glad you asked. The limitations are really very simple also – - Please use your real name – this will be how you show up when you connect to GotUC.Net using Office Communicator. We want to present a positive image for those organizations that we federate with.
- We expect you to behave reasonably and to not abuse the system. Other members are using the system too and we don’t want anyone crashing the system for everybody.
No applications that would be considered illegal or not appropriate for the intended purpose of this site. We don’t want someone using the system for Trojans or spam.
Note: we reserve the right to cancel without warning any accounts that break the rules. |
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Posted by deli on Wednesday, May 13 @ 20:53:18 CEST (209 reads)
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| Virtualization support for OCS 2007 R2 |
 Finally Microsoft Posted the official Whitpaper on OCS 2007 R2 & Virtualization.
Before you jump in the air be aware that virtualization is limited to some workloads only ... (IM/Presense/Groupchat)
Office Communications Server 2007 R2 can be deployed onto Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V, or onto any virtualization solution that is a certified partner through the Server Virtualization Validation Program (SVVP) certified partners for the following workloads: - Presence
- IM (including conferencing, remote access, federation, and Public IM Connectivity)
- Group Chat
This whitepaper: - Identifies which server roles are supported in a virtualized environment
- Provides guidance for scaling users and workloads in a virtualized environment
This document describes the results of a series of configurations that were run in a Hyper-V environment to validate that Office Communications Server on Hyper-V provides stable performance and scalability for production use.
You will also see information in the doc explaining why other workloads are hard to Virtualize:
Enterprise Voice, Remote Call Control (RCC), Response Group Service, dial-In conferencing, audio/video conferencing, Web conferencing, and Communicator Web Access desktop sharing workloads are not supported in a virtualized Office Communications Server 2007 R2 deployment. This occurs because of several factors, including packet loss, delay, jitter, and clock skew. These factors impact the quality and performance of real-time media when virtualized. However, these factors do not impact other workloads such as instant messaging and presence because these workloads are less susceptible to delay and can use the natural retry mechanisms in the SIP protocol and the underlying TCP transport.
Download:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=0a45d921-3b48-44e4-b42b-19704a2b81b0
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Posted by deli on Wednesday, May 13 @ 16:33:23 CEST (171 reads)
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| Unable to connect to Exchange 2010 using Outlook 2007? |
 Having installed Exchange 2010, and using Outlook Web Access for some time, I was surprised to get an error message when launching Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 Sp1, and trying to connect to a mailbox on Exchange 2010.
Let's see. When launching Outlook 2007, I gave the needed information to connect to Exchange 2010:
 And after clicking Next, everything seemed to be going like expected...  but then the following error showed up: |
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Posted by ivcrieki on Monday, May 11 @ 14:11:09 CEST (407 reads)
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| Community Day 2009 |
 The date is set,
Location is reserved,
Speakers are booked,
And sessions are published;
COMMUNITY DAY 2009 IS WAITING FOR YOUR REGISTRATION!
Here's the overview
Community Day is back again, are you ready for our Third Edition of Microsoft Community Day?
Eleven Microsoft User Groups combine their efforts to organize this unique networking and knowledge sharing
event. A unique opportunity to learn about Microsoft’s latest developments and technologies like Exchange
2010, Silverlight 3, Visual Studio 2010, SQL Server 2008, Windows 2008R2, Powershell V2, Forefront
Identity Manager 2010, XNA 3.1. and OCS R2.
Microsoft Community Day will take place on Thursday 25th June 2009 in Utopolis, Mechelen, where we will
bring together 300 IT Pro’s and developers.
The Microsoft Community Day 2009 is supported by BESUG, BIWUG, IT-Talks, MVUG, Pro-Exchange, SCUG, SQLUG, VBIB, Visug, WinSec, XNA-BUG“
Register now for free for this all day event!
To register, here's the link: http://www.communityday.be/CD/-Ilse |
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Posted by ivcrieki on Saturday, May 09 @ 09:20:07 CEST (266 reads)
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| Chopstick: Exchange 2010 Preview |
Preparing a demo environment for our next Pro-Exchange event next week, I recorded another chopstick, and Arlindo has published the video yesterday.
So if you want to have a high-level look at the first public beta of Exchange 2010, check it out, and click here.
Remember that this screencast is based upon the first beta and some of the features shown might be subject to change!!
-Ilse
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Posted by ivcrieki on Thursday, May 07 @ 14:07:12 CEST (263 reads)
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| Live Meeting 2007 Add-in: Live Meeting Lotus Notes Add-In Pack |
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Posted by deli on Wednesday, May 06 @ 16:13:01 CEST (259 reads)
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| DPM v3 “First Look” – TechNet Webcast on May 5 |
 The DPM Team posted this information! On Tuesday, May 5th at 11 AM Pacific – we will be giving folks your “First Look” at DPM v3.
This webcast will cover the big features and directions for the next generation of DPM, so you won’t want to miss it.
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Posted by deli on Monday, May 04 @ 23:12:17 CEST (217 reads)
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| Exclusive : New Windows 2008 Versions |
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Posted by deli on Monday, May 04 @ 22:59:12 CEST (218 reads)
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| Finally, Managing Exchange Certificates using the GUI :-) |
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Certificates and Exchange have always been a challenging topic. In Exchange 2007, it was a real endeavor to get the right certificates up and running, by using the Exchange Management Shell cmdlets Get-ExchangeCertificate, New-ExchangeCertificate, Import-ExchangeCerticate, Enable-ExchangeCertificate and so on. Not to mention the problems you could have if names were not as they were supposed to be...
In Exchange 2010, Microsoft has made an effort to include in the Exchange Management Console a very nice Exchange Certificate management interface, that allows you as an administrator to create a Certificate Requets using the GUI, import an Exchange Certifcicate, and enable an Exchange Certificate for any service of choice.
Let's have a look.
When you open the Exchange Management Console, and drill down to Server Configuration, select a server in the middle pane, and you will see in the bottom pane the list of Exchange Certificates available in the certificate store of that server.
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Posted by ivcrieki on Monday, May 04 @ 13:33:32 CEST (466 reads)
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| Office 2007 Service Pack 2 Released |
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Posted by toninob on Wednesday, April 29 @ 22:48:44 CEST (215 reads)
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| OCS 2007 R2 Roadshow Recordings Available |
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Here are the recordings of the virtual sessions presented by our very own Ilse during the Readshow in Januari
Unified Communications with Office Communications Server 2007 R2
Introduction: What is OCS? Positioning, business value
Let’s start with a flashback on the history of Office Communications server (OCS) (LCS 2003, LCS 2005, LCS 2005 Sp1, OCS 2007) and Microsoft Unified Communications. After this short introduction, you will learn more about the power of those tools and why you should care about it.
Next-Generation Collaboration
This first session focuses on “dial-in audio conferencing”, providing you with an on-premise audio conferencing bridge managed by IT as part of the overall communications infrastructure. You will also discover the “desktop sharing across platforms” possibilities (Windows, Macintosh & Linux), through a Web-based interface and the interest of “persistent group chat”, offering the ability to participate in topic-based discussions and even offline.
Unified Communications with Office Communications Server 2007 R2 – Part I (Dutch) : Unified Communications with Office Communications Server 2007 R2 – Part I (French) : Enhanced Voice and Mobility
This session will introduce to you the “Attendant console and
delegation”, enabling receptionist, and others to manage calls and conferences. Then we will have a close look at the “Initiation Protocol Trunking”, thereby reducing costs by enabling business to setup a direct VoIP connection between an Internet telephony service provider and OCS. You will also learn more about “Mobility and single-number reach”, allowing users to communicate using presence, IM and voice as an extension of their PBX from a unified client and get a view on “Response Group” which provides a simple-to-use basic engine for call treatment, routing and queuing.
Architecture OCS 2007 R2
During this part of the presentation we will discuss the OCS 2007 R2 topology and the different hardware and software requirements
Unified Communications with Office Communications Server 2007 R2 – Part II (Dutch) : |
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Posted by deli on Wednesday, April 29 @ 02:34:50 CEST (220 reads)
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| Who is MicrosoftExchange329e71ec88ae4615bbc36ab6ce41109e? |
 Imagine you have an Exchange 2007 Sp1 environment, and you have just updated every Exchange server with RU7, and then you notice that when internal people receive a system-generated message, they don't seem to be sent anymore by Microsoft Exchange, but by a user called MicrosoftExchange329e71ec88ae4615bbc36ab6ce41109e?
Prior to RU7, any system-generated message delivered to internal users (like journal reports, quota messages, and delivery status notifications) would look like this:
 And after deploying RU7, it looks like this: Here's the official response from Microsoft regarding this issue: |
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Posted by ivcrieki on Tuesday, April 28 @ 18:09:08 CEST (886 reads)
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| Outlook 2010 Screenshot |
Some new Screenshots for Office 2010 are available on Neowin.net You can see the new Voicemail preview (The voicemail is converted into text so you do not have to listen to the voicemail but can read it directly from within the voicemail message)
Also note the hovering over the Phone numbers and users pops up a new dialog to contact people using OCS
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Posted by deli on Tuesday, April 28 @ 02:02:37 CEST (507 reads)
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| Unified Communications How-To Rolodex |
The Microsoft Unified Communications “How-To” training tool is a Microsoft Silverlight™ 2 application that provides step-by-step instructions for common UC tasks. You can customize the How-To application to your company’s needs based on the UC features you’ve installed. For example, if you have installed all UC features except Communicator Mobile and Communicator Group Chat, you can modify the XML file so that those features and topics do not appear in the interface.
Download:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=aba240af-b5ba-4e14-bc12-c98eae1f6d15
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Posted by deli on Tuesday, April 28 @ 01:39:03 CEST (236 reads)
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| Need a hand to get your certificates right for Exchange and OCS? |
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Posted by ivcrieki on Monday, April 27 @ 21:50:48 CEST (354 reads)
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| EXMON Release for Exchange 2007 |
It took a while but here it is. Exmon for Exchange 2007.... Use the Microsoft Exchange Server User Monitor to gather real-time data to better understand current client usage patterns, and to plan for future work. Administrators can view several items, including IP addresses used by clients, versions and modes of Microsoft Office Outlook, and resources such as CPU usage, server-side processor latency, and total latency for network and processing. Works with Microsoft Exchange Server 2000, 2003 and 2007. http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=9a49c22e-e0c7-4b7c-acef-729d48af7bc9
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Posted by toninob on Thursday, April 23 @ 01:00:29 CEST (236 reads)
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| The Exchange Web Services Managed API is available :-) |
It seems it has taken quite some time, but, the wiat is over, the Exchange Web Services Managed API is available for download now :-)
It's still a beta version, but it's there!
Here's how Microsoft describes it:
"The Microsoft Exchange Web Services (EWS) Managed API 1.0 Beta provides a managed interface for developing client applications that use Exchange Web Services. The EWS Managed API simplifies the implementation of applications that communicate with Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 1 (SP1) and later versions of Microsoft Exchange. Built on the Exchange Web Services SOAP protocol and Autodiscover, the EWS Managed API provides a .NET interface to EWS that is easy to learn, use, and maintain."
For download, here's the link:
Exchange Web Services Managed API Beta
-Ilse
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Posted by ivcrieki on Monday, April 20 @ 22:04:05 CEST (217 reads)
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| Microsoft Voice Ignite Workshop |
Okay, so, normally I wouldn't use Pro-Exchange to post some commercial information, but now, I feel it's the right place to make some publicity for a fantastic training provided by Steven Van Houttum, colleague Exchange-OCS MVP, about OCS Voice.
So if you need/want to know everything about voice and Micrososoft OCS, please join us in Mechelen :-)
Microsoft Voice Ignite Workshop
Course Code: GKMS
Duration: 4
Price: €1,700.00 (ex. VAT)
Overview The Voice Ignite technical track is a4 day workshop that will build on your previous experience with Microsoft’s UC products and learn how to successfully design and deploy Microsoft voice solutions for your customers through presentations based on experience, Hands on Labs, and a Make It Right Project. This track is oriented at technical roles such as Architects and engineers.
Pre-Requisites
- Microsoft Exchange Server 2007
- Architecting and Deploying Unified Messaging (UM Power Up)
- Office Communications Server (OCS) 2007 Ignite
Next Course Dates
April 27 Apr - 30 Apr, 2009 Mechelen If you want more information, please mail me at ilse.vancriekinge[a]globalknowledge.be or check out http://www.globalknowledge.be-Ilse |
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Posted by ivcrieki on Friday, April 17 @ 23:56:05 CEST (230 reads)
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| Exchange 2010 Feature Summary |
Hi fellow IT-Pro's,
The last couple of days I was attending Interact 2009 and totally loved it. The level of interaction was great, in fact we got no powerpoint presentation at all !! ;-). Have a look at Eileen’s blog posting on Interact 2009 http://blogs.technet.com/eileen_brown/archive/2009/04/15/interact-2009-and-exchange-2010.aspx
While we were attending we also got the green light to start blogging about the new features available in Exchange 2010 and some of the things that will no longer be with us (such as SCC).
This posting is meant to be a first high level overview of what most likely is already blogged intensively over the internet at the moment...
1) Forget about CCR and SCR and think Database Availability Group... DAG is the new way of doing HA and DR. Deploying DAG is easier than ever as it will deploy the necessary Windows Clustering components for you. Also you can now get up to 16 replica’s of your mailbox database and the failover granularity is now on Database level instead of Server level. Have a look here for more information http://www.exchange-genie.com/2009/04/database-availability-group-dag-exchange-2010/
2) Considering the investments done in DAG with the reduced storage requirements (DAS, Raid less Storage so JBOD’s) and replication support they removed support for Single Copy Clusters (SCC) which typically depended on implementing a storage level replication to provide for site resilient solutions.
3) No more storage groups, it’s all Database now..
4) Exchange Clusters support other roles now, so you run Hub Transport and Client Access server on the cluster.. This will get you that consolidation story without sacrificing redundancy.
5) Exchange Unified Messaging supports up to 30 languages now for OVA, so it’s no longer only English but you take talk in Dutch or French as well to the server.
6) Exchange Unified Messaging now also provide speech to text capabilities...When you look at your voicemail once received in Outlook you get a summary of it in “text”.. which makes your voicemail searchable
7) Exchange 2010 now provides an archiving solution where you can move your PST into the mailbox, set retention policies and allow for cross-mailbox searches using a web-interface.
8) Thanks to some more improvements in the ESE engine you get an additional 50% IO reduction in Exchange 2010, combined with the storage reductions from Exchange 2007 (which was 70%) you get a whopping 85% IO reduction from Exchange 2003 (if my calculation are right ;-)
9) Outlook Web Access now fully supports Firefox and Safari in Premium mode which is just great as I use OWA and Firefox very regularly…
10) Outlook Web Access provides conversation views which will condenses your emails by threads.
11) Mailtips is also a great new feature which provides instant feedback on the email you’re about the send before you submitted it. Imagine you’re sending an email to someone who is OOF, instead of submitting the email you get notified upfront that the user is not in the office. Other tips are when you are sending to a Distribution list and it contains an external contact or the user’s mailbox receive quota has been reached etc..
12) Windows Server 2003 is not supported for Exchange 2010, so start looking at providing a foundation for your Windows 2008 servers
13) Powershell V2 support with remoting capabilities.
14) Exchange now provides Role Based Access Control (RBAC) which allows you to provide for VERY granular control of what your operational teams are allowed to execute
15) Users can now manage some things themselves through a Control Panel in Outlook Web Access. For example creating distribution lists, managing members of it etc..
And there is much more like integration with the MSOnline allowing you to host some mailboxes on premise and some in the “cloud”.
If you have any feedback question or see issues please let us know in the forums.
Let's learn and continue to interact !!!
Greetings,
Tonino Bruno
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Posted by toninob on Thursday, April 16 @ 08:48:24 CEST (1218 reads)
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| UPDATED : Office Communicator Phone Edition (2007 R2) |
Quick Details File Name: UCUpdates.exe Version: 6907.9 Date Published: 4/14/2009 This download was originally released on February 1, 2009. For a complete list of fixes and changes in this latest version, please see KB article 967820. Office Communicator Phone Edition, which provides a rich, Office Communicator-like user experience on select standalone IP phones from Microsoft partners (e.g., LG-Nortel IP 8540 and Polycom CX700), has been updated with new functionality that provides an enhanced user experience on these phones: - Single sign-in. Users can now connect their Office Communicator Phone Edition phone to their computer with a USB cable and sign in to both their phone and Office Communicator 2007 R2 at the same time.
- Integration with Office Communicator 2007 R2 on the PC. Users can now click a contact or phone number in their Office Communicator 2007 R2 contact list on their PC to place a call using their Office Communicator Phone Edition phone. Call controls are synchronized on both the phone and Office Communicator on the PC. If their PC is configured with a webcam, users can escalate the call by adding video.
- Support for new Office Communications Server 2007 R2 voice features. New call delegation, team calling and Response Group service functionality in Office Communications Server 2007 R2 are also supported in Office Communicator Phone Edition.
- Audio quality enhancements. Latency, audio quality and call setup time have all been improved.
- User interface enhancements. The user interface has been improved and streamlined. For example, a Redial button enables users to easily redial the last dialed number, searching through the corporate directory is easier, and users can select from one of four ring tones.
- Office Live Meeting support. Users can now use their Office Communicator Phone Edition phone as an audio device in Office Live Meeting.
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Posted by deli on Wednesday, April 15 @ 23:55:51 CEST (289 reads)
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| Exchange 2010 Beta Available |
Byebye E14, and welcome Exchange 2010 :-)
As blogged by David Strome:
"Exchange 2010 Beta bits, get em while they're hot!
Exchange 2010 is available now for download. We've worked for two and a half years to create the most advanced e-mail system available. There are dozens of new features in every area of the product - and entirely new feature areas that are just plain cool - mailbox, high availability and resiliency, compliance, permissions, end-user self-management, distribution group self-management...the list can go on and on.
You can learn about all the new features of Exchange 2010 on the What's New page.
Finally, check out the documentation we've put together for you. It's a beta, so content is still being written. Please make use of the feedback button and tell us what you think of the docs. The beta is as much about getting the documentation right as it is about getting the code right. We need your feedback!
Over the next while I'll be posting more about Exchange 2010 in general but specifically about my feature areas - Role Based Access Control - the new, highly flexible and extremely powerful permissions model in Exchange 2010, and the Exchange Management Shell - the command line interface first introduced in Exchange 2007. We've made some pretty interesting changes to the shell infrastructure that you should find interesting.
Now get going and get downloading! :)"
Happy E14-E2010 :-)
-Ilse
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Posted by ivcrieki on Wednesday, April 15 @ 09:38:12 CEST (330 reads)
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| Sad day for ISA => start patching now |
 Tom_Decaluwe writes "Since it’s release back in 2006 ISA has held a high reputation as there have been 0 security bulletins in over 3 years.
Patch Tuesday 14 April 2009 has however changed this spotless track as the first security bulletin has been release fixing two issues within ISA 2004 / 2006 and TMG that will also effect your published exchange servers.
Web Proxy TCP State Limited Denial of Service Vulnerability - CVE-2009-0077 "
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Posted by ivcrieki on Wednesday, April 15 @ 09:22:57 CEST (265 reads)
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| Virtual Unified Communications User Group launched (UCVUG) |
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Welcome to the Unified Communications Virtual User Group (UCVUG). This user group was formed to provide resources, education, and collaboration to professionals who are interested in Microsoft Unified Communications Products. UCVUG meets every quarter and all meetings are held online using Microsoft Unified Communications products such as Live Meeting.
What is a Virtual user group?
A virtual user group is a user group that hosts all meetings online. Presenters and attendees participate virtually via online tools such as Microsoft Live Meeting.
How can I get involved? Become a member today. It's easy, It's Free. Becoming a member also enters your name into prize drawings and allows you access to exclusive member content.
Is UCVUG affiliated with Microsoft? No. We are independent and are not affiliated with Microsoft. We sometimes even have presentations from other vendors such as Microsoft partners. However all presentations will be related to the Microsoft Unified Communications platform.
Kick-off Meeting Scheduled The Microsoft Unified Communications Virtual User Group (UCVUG) will be hosting it's first meeting on May 21st, 2009 at 7:00 PM Eastern Time. This event will be broadcast online via Microsoft Live Meeting. Please register if you plan to attend so that we can get a count of how many attendees to plan for.
Agenda - UCVUG Welcome - Dustin Hannifin - New Features in Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 R2 - Jeff Schertz - Evangelyze SmartSIP Solution (Connect OCS to standard SIP phones and almost any ITSP)- Mike Stacy - Prize Drawing and Closing
http://ucvug.org/
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